Plywood Winged Box

I used top quality marine plywood on this 7” square winged bowl 3 up and 1 down with the up wings turned inwards. The shaping up was done with the Dremel using various burrs. I hand sanded to plywood withAbranet sheets with grit 80 to 600 and found it was excellent for plywood. Abranet I purchases from Rubber Chuckies (www.rubber chuckies.com) and I also used a no nose rubber chuckie to hold the project while turningthe bottom and found it great as it didn’t leave any marks like the metal chuck. (pic 6)

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At first look, I thought you had turned a space craft :) Then I found it was something from our planet. You have very good imagination, Bob. I like it and I may try it as soon as I have time. How long did it take you to do it?

G’day, Mate! Bob that came out just super!!!!!!! Those plies add character like the grain pattern of solid. I really like the detail on the underside. it looks like you have machined 16 “swoops” into the turned area. How did you do that? I looked again from the top and it looks like segments???You’re a hard act to follow!!!!!!!!!!!! Very nice piece…......Cheers…........Jim

-- Jim Jakosh.....Practical Wood Products...........Learn something new every day!! Variety is the Spice of Life!!

Sam, I worked off and on for about 3 days, not sure if plywood would hold together turning the wings, workied without a plan but as you said “imagination”. Jim, the bottom layer is a segmented ring but the wings were turned from laminated plywood. Confession to all – When hollowing I accidentally knocked about an inch of each wing when extracting the chisel, that’s when I got the idea to smooth the breaks at an angle so that I could glue them back on sloping inwards, once the glue was dry just a matter of touching up with the Dremel and some hand sanding with Abranet. Some of the pics show the grain difference on the tips. Thanks for the comments, much appreciated.

Very Nice work Bob,You got me “horn-swaggled” on that bottom though. On those 12 facets, is it an illusion that they are flat?My weak mind is having trouble visualizing turned segments having that appearance.Thanks,

Wow, that is wild! Bob it is good to know that other LJ’s share my philosophy: if a mistake happens; it was meant to be the beginning of something amazing. Some of my best work, came from a feeling of panic…dismay… regrouping….thinking out of the box… relief. Great job!